Environmental, economic factors play out in Southeast Alaska battle over wolves

“They’re logging up a storm out there,” said Owen Graham, executive director of the Alaska Forest Association, an industry group. “They’re trying to get wood ahead of the winter.

”But all that could come to an end if the wolf is declared endangered. Federal regulators could reduce or stop logging or hunting or both if they decide either is putting wolves at risk of extinction.

Source: Environmental, economic factors play out in Southeast Alaska battle over wolves | Alaska Dispatch News